Ardeas

In Greek mythology, Ardeas or Ardeias (Ancient Greek: Ἀρδείας) was a son of Odysseus and Circe. He was said[1] to have founded Ardea, a city in Latium, although others suggest Ardea was founded by Danae.

Xenagoras (historian) writes that Odysseus with Circe had three sons, Romos (Ancient Greek: Ῥώμος), Anteias (Ancient Greek: Ἀντείας) and Ardeias (Ancient Greek: Ἀρδείας), who built three cities and called them after their own names. The city that the Romos founded was the Rome.[2]

References
  1. Hesiod, Theogony, lines 1011-1016.
  2. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.72.5


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